The online dossier of the same name recalls the emancipatory, feminist, leftist movements and struggles of 1968 by confronting the dominant, popular historical narratives with, Afro-German, African, and queer perspectives and biographies.

Where are the gaps in the great discourse of freedom, solidarity and rebellion? Who is left out of the fondly told stories of social upheaval?

This is how Thembi Wolf follows in ” A Difficult Love”. furiously traces the (pop-cultural) footsteps of Malcom X, Angela Davis or Che Guevara through West and East Berlin, sketches the ambivalent identifications and raptures of the mostly white, West German students with and for those, as she writes, “revolutionary icons of power”. To finally arrive at the protest movements of today: “Lucha in Congo, Y’en a Marre in Senegal, Le Balai Citoyen in Burkina Faso.” Linked to the question: where is that internationalism, even if it is in the form of kitschy, European revolutionary fantasy, actually today?

Furthermore, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai writes about the singer-songwriter and activist Fasia Jansen, Azadê Peşmen on the non-solidarity of the 1968 movements with the labor struggles of so-called guest workers and Peggy Piesche, Valerie-Siba Rousparast (Minutes), Melody Makeda Ledwon, Maureen Maisha Auma and Karina Griffith on (the struggle for) sexual freedom, reproductive rights, and intersectional solidarity in the wake of 1968.

The dossier is a cooperation of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the Gunda Werner Institute and Missy Magazine.

 

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